Vaccine-container.



P. S. PITTENGER.

VACCINE CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.6, 1914.

1,161,725. Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Ht v I five/2252 COFUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON. n. c.

PAUL s. or rrfiiir-iijnnrnm, rnnnsynvan a, ne at ves o MULFoR'D COMPANY, 013 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed August 6, 1914. Serial No. 855,452.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PAUL S. PITTENGER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a Vaccine-Container, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide a novel form of holder for vaccine or serum of any kind, which in addition to containing such substance in a hermetically sealed vessel, shall be available for use as a scarifier, the invention also contemplating novel means for expelling the vaccine from the container whenit is desired for application to the wound made by the scarifier or otherwise.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a vaccine holder which shall be of such design as to preserve the vaccine from the contamination but which shall be available vention; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the bulb for expelling the vaccine; Fig. 3 is an elongated section of the tube shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section showing the bulb in position on the body of the virus containing tube ready to be used in expelling the vaccine or other material therefrom.

In the above drawings 1 represents a tube of glass or other suitable frangible material within whose hollow interior is contained vaccine or any other desired substance. The tube consists of a body portion 2 and end portions 3 and at each connected to said body by relatively weak necks or portions weakened by file cuts 5 and 6 so as to permit of their easy and clean breakage from the body. Obviously the parts uniting the ends with the body are not necessarily of reduced section but may be. of the same section as the body and merely pro vided with file notches or other means for localizing the break.

The end portion 3 preferably has its extremity 7 made in the shape of a scarifying point or it may be broken so as to be relatively sharp with more or less jagged edges in order to be available for use in scarifying the skin.

In addition to the tube I provide a compressible bulb 8 preferably of rubber having a narrow elongated portion 9 formed with a small bore passage leading therefrom to the hollow interior of the bulb and opposite this having a relatively large air opening 10.

Under conditions of use the tube as a whole is employed as a scarifier, its pointed or jagged extremity being used to scratch or cut the skin of the patient, after which the two end portions?) and 4: are broken from the body 2. The end portion 9 of the bulb is then placed over one end of the body portion 2, after which the compression of said bulb by the operator serves to force out the vaccine contained therein, a finger of said operator being held over the larger opening 10 of the bulb during this operation and the vaccine thus being deposited on the wound previously made by the point 7.

The advantages of the device will be readily understood by those skilled in the art, for obviously the vaccine is retained in the tube without danger of contamination and may be appliedto a wound made by the use of its point with the utmost despatch and under absolutely aseptic conditions.

It is to be noted that the tube with its contained vaccine and the compressible bulb are dispensed as a package or device for the administration of such vaccine, and it is to be understood that any desired material other than vaccine virus may be placed in the tube and applied as above described without departing from my invention.

I claim 1 1. A new article of manufacture consisting of a hermetically sealed tube and a body of vaccine therein, one end of said tube being sharp edged and jagged to constitute a scarifying point.

2. A new article of manufacture consisting of a hermetically sealed glass tube and a name to this specification, in the presence body of vaccine thereciln, one dend of said of two subscribing Witnesses. tube having a shar e "ed an 'a ed eX- T tremity constituting a sgarifying pai nt and FALL PIITENGER' 5 being connected to thesbody thereof by a structurally Weak portion.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my Witnesses:

W. H. QUILLMAN, WILLIAM E. BRADLEY.

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